If you've tuned into Channel 4 at any point in the past couple of weeks, you may have caught a glimpse of a particularly disturbing advert for a company called Persona Synthetics. Ostensibly, they are the brains behind the latest must-have gadget for the busy family: a synth, or an advanced robot … [Read more...]
Death to Flowers! Why send floral tributes when you can send inflatable flamingo drinks holders?
Hayfever! Fear of your own mortality! A lack of vases! Oh my! This is both the first draft for Dorothy’s Lions and Tigers and Bears Wizard of Oz ditty, and a list of great reasons why you might not want to send a dear friend some flowers. But what’s the alternative? Luckily, Death to Flowers … [Read more...]
Are you having a mum-life crisis? We’ve got just the tonic (gin optional)
I wrote an ecourse! Sign up! Join me! It's really short and it will make you laugh (or your money back!) And the best bit? It's TOTALLY FREE! After my first baby, I felt a little bit... off. It took me a long time to get back to feeling like myself again, and along the way I picked up a lot of … [Read more...]
The Avengers: Crochet or knit your own superheroes for free
The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron hit the big screens last month, and having seen it twice and read through all the online reviews, we think it's finally time to sit down and make our own little versions of the team. Here are 5 different ways you can knit or crochet your own Avengers: … [Read more...]
Mathematical! Adventure Time comes to LBP3
This week will see Sackboy transported to the Land of Ooo in the brand new Adventure Time Level Kit. Along the way you will meet Adventure Time characters and gather themed goodies to go in your Popit. Finn, Jake, Ice King, Gunter and The Cosmic Owl are all featured in the Adventure Time Costume … [Read more...]
Battle of the trailers: The Force Awakens Vs. Batman V. Superman
The past week was positively Christmas for us film dorks: two of the biggest upcoming blockbusters have released shiny new trailers, for us to watch, scrutinize and (hopefully) get us excited about the finished product. … [Read more...]
Grass eco-phone launches England’s Six Nations game
The fully functional herbivorous device is a UK first, having taken more than 240 hours to build, using tens of thousands of blades of grass sourced from Twickenham Stadium for the casing and locally sourced wood for the buttons. The insides are made up of recycled phone bits. Freeze-dried within … [Read more...]
Microsoft Band to debut in the UK
The Microsoft Band is one of the newest additions to the fitness wearables market, incorporating a 24-hour heart rate monitor, calorie tracker, sleep tracker, clock and stopwatch, and displays notifications for text messages as well as allowing you to keep track of Facebook and Twitter, linking to … [Read more...]
Go – How to survive the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show
As you may have guessed from a glance at our Craft section, Team Dork Adore are a bunch of avid makers (myself included; I'm a papercrafter/knitter). So when we got the chance to send one of us to The Spring Knitting and Stitching Show at Kensington Olympia, we jumped on it. I braved the first day … [Read more...]
WATCH: Mr Holmes trailer released
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE! The trailer for Mr Holmes has just been released, and everyone is excited (few more so than myself). Based on Mitch Cullin’s novel A Slight Trick of the Mind and directed by Bill Condon, the film follows a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes as he embarks on his last … [Read more...]
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